VMware vSphere 4The best platform for building cloud infrastructures VMware vSphere™, the industry’s first cloud operating system, leverages the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services, using internal and external resources, securely and with low risk. Key Features and Benefits Summary VMware vSphere™ is the industry’s first cloud operating system comprising of the following groups of components:

Infrastructure services –The set of components that comprehensively virtualize server, storage and network resources, aggregate them and allocate them precisely on demand to applications based on business priority.

Application services – The set of components that provide built-in service level controls to all applications running on VMware vSphere™, regardless of application type or operating system.